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Welcome to our play! Today, we would like to share with you our version of Beauty & the Beast. In our story, there is a Prince who is selfish and bad-mannered. His mother, the Queen, is frustrated with her son. She wants to help him grow up to be a good person, but her words aren’t working – so she uses her words in a different way and creates a spell which turns the Prince into a Beast. She tells the Beast he must learn to use the qualities each of her favorite roses represent:

•Yellowforfriendship

•Darkpinkforgratitude

•Lightpinkforgentleness

•Creamforkindness

•Redforloveandrespect

When the Beast has shown that he can be a friend, be grateful, gentle, kind, and can love and respect someone, then he will not be a Beast anymore, but be returned to being a Prince.

Sometimes we forget that what matters most is what we are on the inside – not what we look like on the outside. It is how we treat each other thatmattersmost.Doyouagree?

Enjoy the show!

Beauty & the Beast

AdaptationbyLaniBrockmanMusic&LyricsbySusanBardsleyDirectedbyLaniBrockmanChoreographedbyKarenOmahen

INNERBEAUTY

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Meet these talented actors after the show for autographs & pictures!Acrostic Challenge

Find the following characters from our play: BEAUTY•QUEEN•PAPA•BEAST•PRINCE•FASTIDIOUS•

PERSNICKETY

Now find the colors of the Queen’s favorite roses:YELLOW•DARKPINK•LIGHTPINK•CREAM•RED

For an extra challenge, find the names of our actors:JACOB•MEGAN•TASHA•CARLY•KYLE

Now, how many times can you find the word ROSE? (Hint: 8 times!)

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For ages 4+

TICKETS: studio-east.orgNov. 30 - Dec. 22, 2019

Adaptation by Lani Brockman & Susan Bardsley Music & Lyrics by Susan Bardsley

Playing in Kirkland at Studio East

Premera applauds Studio East and all of their

talented performers.

Bravo!

Meet these talented actors after the show for autographs & pictures!

Special thanks to our ASL Interpreters for the Deaf: Patye Nguyen & Andy Gault

Director: Lani Brockman | Music Director: Susan BardsleyChoreographer: Karen Omahen | Set Design & Painting: d.ita Olson

Set Construction: Erik Eagleson | Costume Design: Lani BrockmanCostume Construction: Sheryl Cope | Stage Manager: Liz Clayton

House Manager: Dave Guilland | Asst. House Manager: Ann GuillandOn Site Box Office: Cindy Peltier | Technical Director: Erik Eagleson

Asst. Technical Director: Darrell Cawley Props: Lani Brockman | Graphics: Julie Carlos

PRODUCTION TEAM

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Megan D. Connell received her Bachelor of Arts from the University ofNevada,LasVegasintheirStageandScreenActingprogram.Shethenspentnearly6yearsinLasVegasperformingintheateronTheStripandinfilmprojectsaroundthearea.Lastyear,shereturnedtothePacificNorth-west and joined StoryBook for 3 Pigs(CallaLily),andStudioEast’s‘Twas

the Night...(Mom).Biggestthankstotheentireteam.Shegrewuptrainingunderthemand is ecstatic to have the opportunity to continue to perform with them!

Tasha Smith is beyond excited to be making her debut with StoryBook thisyear!SincegraduatingfromPLUin2015,shehasmusicdirectedandperformed in many shows around the Seattle/Tacoma area. Most recently, she was seen in Princess IdaatTheSeattleGilbert&SullivanSociety,asJudy Haynes in White Christmas at Tacoma Musical Playhouse, and as

BalletGirlinFreckleface StrawberryatSecondStoryRepertory.Tashaalsorunsastudioofher own, teaching private voice and piano lessons. www.tashachristine.com

Jacob Livingston is thrilled to be back on the StoryBook Theater stage after many years away! He has been singing for almost four decades and loves to meow songs for friends when they ask politely (andsometimesevenwhentheydon’t).Sincechildhood,Jacobhasperformed in choral arts, musical theater, opera, voice-overs, and other

forms of the arts. Jacob continues to search for new ways to laugh and be kind. He is grateful for his family and friends’ support.

Carly Squires Hutchison is thrilled to make her StoryBook Theater debut in Beauty & the Beast!CarlyhasperformedwithVillageTheatre, SecondStoryRepertory,TaprootTheatre,WoodenO,SeattleMusical Theatre,andSeattleChildren’sTheatre.Alocalperformer,director, choreographer,andteachingartist,CarlyworkswithVillageTheatre’s

KIDSTAGE,CreativeDanceCenter,SeattleChildren’sTheatre,andFoundry10.Dedicatedtoeducationandinspiringstudents,CarlyisthrilledtobepartofthisTheatreforYoungAudiences show. Many thanks to mom and family! Happy Holidays!!

Kyle Cable has been seen on stages around the Puget Sound region for many years. Here with StoryBook Theater, he has happily played the Toymaker in The Elves & the Toymakers for 3 years and most recently played theKinginThe Princess & the Pea. And now… enjoy Beauty & the Beast!

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StoryBookTheaterisproducedbyStudioEastTrainingforthePerformingArts,basedinKirkland.StudioEast,nowinits 27thseason,workstocreateopportunitiesforyoungpeopletodiscoverandexploretheperformingarts.StoryBook Theaterservesthismissionbyintroducingover45,000patronseachyeartolivetheaterforyoungaudiences.Webelievethatexposing children to the arts at an early age fosters creativity, validates different ways of seeing the world, and demonstrates creative outlets for expressing emotions.

Studio East’s many performing arts training programs – after school and homeschool classes and workshops, productions and classes at area schools, school break and summer camps, and Mainstage productions – focus on nurturing responsibil-ity, creativity, and compassion in the youth of our community. We believe that young people who practice the discipline and dedication required by the art and craft of theater develop life skills that will serve them throughout their lives, no matter what career they pursue.

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